Bendt Bendtsen
Bendt Bendtsen (born March 25, 1954 in Odense ) is a Danish politician of the Conservative People's Party and has been a member of the European Parliament since 2009 .
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Life
Bendtsen graduated from secondary school at Odense Friskole in 1971 , and in 1972 he received an exam from the agricultural school in Corinth / Funen . First he worked in agriculture, in 1975 he began training at the Danish Police School. From 1980 he worked as a police officer, from 1984 at the Odense Criminal Police .
From 1994 to 2009 Bendtsen was a member of the Danish Folketing Parliament . In the 1990s, the Conservative Party suffered from personal squabbles that contributed to a fall in voter support in the 1998 parliamentary elections . Bendtsen, who had been quite unknown until then, was able to collect the conservatives again temporarily. On August 5, 1999, he was promoted to political spokesman and parliamentary group leader of the Conservatives, and from 2000 to 2008 he was also party chairman.
In 2001 he became Danish Minister for Economic Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen . On September 9, 2008, he resigned his previous offices in favor of Lene Espersen and took over the top candidacy of the conservatives in the 2009 European elections .
EU parliamentarians
Since 2009 Bendtsen has been a member of the European Parliament and a member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy and of the delegation for relations with the countries of South Asia. As a substitute he is active in the Committee on Budgets and in the delegation for relations with Australia and New Zealand as well as in the delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Union for the Mediterranean.
In May 2012, he founded together with the Austrian MEP Paul Rübig and Bulgarian deputies Nadezhda Neynsky the European small businesses association of the European People's Party , SME Europe .
Web links
- Bendt Bendtsen - Official appearance on the Conservative website
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on Bendt Bendtsen in the European Parliament 's database of representatives
- ↑ Statutes of SME Europe with the date of foundation ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 97 kB), homepage of SME Europe, May 16, 2012.
Emil Piper (1916–1928) | Charles Tvede (1928–1932) | John Christmas Møller (1932-1939) | Vilhelm Fibiger (1939–1948) | Halfdan Hendriksen (1948–1957) | Einar Foss (1957–1965) | Knud Thestrup (1965–1972) | Erik Haunstrup Clemmensen (1972–1974) | Poul Schlueter (1974–1977) | Ib Stetter (1977-1981) | Poul Schlueter (1981-1993) | Torben Rechendorff (1993–1995) | Hans Engell (1995–1997) | Per Stig Møller (1997–1998) | Poul Andreassen (1998-2000) | Bendt Bendtsen (2000–2008) | Lene Espersen (2008–2011) | Lars Barfoed (2011–2014) | Søren Pape Poulsen (since 2014)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bendtsen, Bendt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish politician (K), member of the Folketing and MEP |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Odense |